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Phoenicopterus
Taxonomy
Phoenicopterus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. Its type is Phoenicopterus ruber. It is the type genus of Phoenicopteridae, Phoenicopteroidea.
It was assigned to Odontoglossae by Shufeldt (1891); and to Phoenicopteridae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Brodkorb (1955), Howard (1955), Wetmore (1956), Cheneval (1984), Carroll (1988), Emslie (1992), Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Mlikovsky (2002), Candela et al. (2012), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017), Worthy and Yates (2018) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
It was assigned to Odontoglossae by Shufeldt (1891); and to Phoenicopteridae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Brodkorb (1955), Howard (1955), Wetmore (1956), Cheneval (1984), Carroll (1988), Emslie (1992), Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Mlikovsky (2002), Candela et al. (2012), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017), Worthy and Yates (2018) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
Species
P. chilensis, P. copei, P. croizeti, P. floridanus, P. minutus, P. novaehollandiae, P. roseus (syn. P. antiquorum), P. ruber (type species), P. stocki
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Phoenicopterus Linnaeus |
| 1891 | Phoenicopterus Shufeldt p. 819 |
| 1902 | Phoenicopterus Hay p. 531 |
| 1930 | Phoenicopterus Hay p. 297 |
| 1933 | Phoenicopterus Lambrecht p. 344 |
| 1940 | Phoenicopterus Wetmore p. 19 |
| 1955 | Phoenicopterus Brodkorb p. 18 |
| 1955 | Phoenicopterus Howard p. 24 |
| 1956 | Phoenicopterus Wetmore p. 23 |
| 1976 | Gervaisia Harrison and Walker |
| 1978 | Harrisonavis Kašin |
| 1984 | Phoenicopterus Cheneval p. 90 |
| 1988 | Phoenicopterus Carroll |
| 1992 | Phoenicopterus Emslie p. 263 |
| 2001 | Phoenicopterus Olson and Rasmussen p. 294 |
| 2002 | Phoenicopterus Mlikovsky p. 106 |
| 2012 | Phoenicopterus Candela et al. p. 521 |
| 2014 | Phoenicopterus del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Phoenicopterus Clements et al. |
| 2018 | Phoenicopterus Worthy and Yates p. 232 |
| 2020 | Phoenicopterus Worthy and Nguyen p. 82 |
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G. Phoenicopterus Linnaeus 1758
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Phoenicopterus chilensis Molina 1782 [Chilean flamingo]
†Phoenicopterus copei Shufeldt 1891
†Phoenicopterus croizeti Gervais 1852
†Phoenicopterus floridanus Brodkorb 1953 [flamingo]
†Phoenicopterus minutus Howard 1955
†Phoenicopterus novaehollandiae Miller 1963
Phoenicopterus roseus Pallas 1811 [greater flamingo]
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Invalid names: Phoenicopterus antiquorum Temminck 1815 [synonym]
Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus 1758 [American flamingo]
†Phoenicopterus stocki Miller 1944
Invalid names: Gervaisia Harrison and Walker 1976 [synonym], Harrisonavis Kašin 1978 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Aquitanian to the top of the Holocene or 23.03000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 20.44 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 20.44 Ma
Collections (35 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Aquitanian | France (Auvergne) | P. croizeti (125333) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Czech Republic | Harrisonavis croizeti (61440 61441) | |
| Serravallian | Argentina (Entre Rios) | P. sp. (199484) | |
| Tortonian | USA (Florida) | P. floridanus (122351) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Australia (Northern Territory) | P. novaehollandiae (13315) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian | Mexico (Chihuahua) | P. stocki (18755) | |
| Zanclean | USA (North Carolina) | P. floridanus (52582) | |
| Zanclean | Australia (Queensland) | P. ruber (182159) | |
| Blancan | USA (Florida) | P. sp. (19753) | |
| Blancan | USA (California) | P. sp. (20540) | |
| Pleistocene | Egypt | P. antiquorum (21888) | |
| Pleistocene | Mexico (Jalisco) | P. ruber (192626) | |
| Pleistocene | Egypt (Kom Ombo Plain) | P. antiquorum (22544) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Florida) | P. copei, P. ruber (20400) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | South Africa | P. roseus (198625) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Mexico (Jalisco) | P. sp. (192628) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Oregon) | P. copei (93251 176222) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Mexico (Mexico) | P. copei (71320) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Portugal | P. ruber (197768) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (California) | P. copei (192602) P. minutus (192606 192607 192609) P. minutus, P. copei (20273) | |
| Holocene | Mauritius | P. ruber (194169) P. sp. (194024) | |
| Holocene | Madagascar | P. roseus (236022) P. ruber (195019) | |
| Holocene | Puerto Rico | P. ruber (194583) | |
| Holocene | Reunion | P. ruber (193996) | |
| Holocene | Venezuela | P. ruber (197931 197932 197934) |